The Edinburgh TV Festival has unveiled will.i.am and producer Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo, Dopesick) as first big-name speakers for its 2024 edition this summer.
Clarkson’s Farm executive producer Andy Wilman will also appear at the 49th Edinburgh TV Festival in August.
“The speakers also feed into two new areas of expansion that have been introduced to look at the future of the industry in a practical and inspiring way,” organizers said. In an addition to the regular Spotlight Sessions, panel discussions and program masterclasses in Edinburgh, new creative director Rowan Woods is looking to expand the event’s international focus and also launching a new strand called Frontiers, which “celebrates creativity, convergence and new forms of storytelling.”
In its first year, the Frontiers strand will feature will.i.am in conversation with Alex Connock, an academic in media and artificial intelligence at Oxford University, about the...
Clarkson’s Farm executive producer Andy Wilman will also appear at the 49th Edinburgh TV Festival in August.
“The speakers also feed into two new areas of expansion that have been introduced to look at the future of the industry in a practical and inspiring way,” organizers said. In an addition to the regular Spotlight Sessions, panel discussions and program masterclasses in Edinburgh, new creative director Rowan Woods is looking to expand the event’s international focus and also launching a new strand called Frontiers, which “celebrates creativity, convergence and new forms of storytelling.”
In its first year, the Frontiers strand will feature will.i.am in conversation with Alex Connock, an academic in media and artificial intelligence at Oxford University, about the...
- 5/28/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The process of dealing with grief, especially with the loss of someone dear, is different for each individual, but sharing the emotional burden with the people who empathize surely helps people to move on, irrespective of how they cope with their loss. This realization takes on a new dimension when themes of matriarchy, femininity, and family ties are intricately woven into the narrative, and that is what Guy Édoin’s Frontiers is all about. However, this basic premise doesn’t tell the entire story, as there is much the movie wants to convey through the four female leads within a short runtime. Some of the intended messages lands, especially due to how good the chemistry between the characters turns out to be, which properly relays the undercurrent of pathos and desperation to the viewers. But confusion (not the good kind) and boredom massively sap at the interest through the course...
- 5/5/2024
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
Sonic Frontiers may have received generally mixed reviews, but the 2022 platform game sold more than 3 million copies. It is no surprise then that Sega is rumored to be working on Sonic Frontiers 2.
Popular leaker Daniel Richtman aka DanielRPK first shared the intel with Sonic fans on his Patreon. Shortly after, the rumor was corroborated by another known leaker, MbKKssTBhz5 aka Midori. They claimed that while the sequel would have a similar gameplay style, the name itself could change.
The tweet read,
“The title is a sequel to Frontiers in gameplay style. But the name might change. Frontiers was Rangers until it was announced.”
The title is a sequel to Frontiers in gameplay style.
But the name might change. Frontiers was Rangers until it was announced.
— みどり (@MbKKssTBhz5) April 21, 2024
Both the leakers have had a good track record, so there could be some substance to this rumor. The first game sold...
Popular leaker Daniel Richtman aka DanielRPK first shared the intel with Sonic fans on his Patreon. Shortly after, the rumor was corroborated by another known leaker, MbKKssTBhz5 aka Midori. They claimed that while the sequel would have a similar gameplay style, the name itself could change.
The tweet read,
“The title is a sequel to Frontiers in gameplay style. But the name might change. Frontiers was Rangers until it was announced.”
The title is a sequel to Frontiers in gameplay style.
But the name might change. Frontiers was Rangers until it was announced.
— みどり (@MbKKssTBhz5) April 21, 2024
Both the leakers have had a good track record, so there could be some substance to this rumor. The first game sold...
- 4/22/2024
- by Ashish Yadav
- GamesHorizon
“Sentinel,” by Hollywood legend Phil Tippett, and “Sister Inconnue,” the first solo directorial outing of Rkss’ Anouk Whissell, cold well be two highlights at a 2024 Cannes Frontières Platform that looks set to underscore the robust range of genre as it is embraced by Hollywood, big independents, horror devotees and auteurs alike.
Creator of creatures for “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park,” Tippett may have terrified more people than anybody alive. If a teaser is anything to go by, “Sentinel,” a project, may well pick up on the style of 2021’s experimental and nightmarish stop motion/animation “Mad God.”
“Sentinel” features a battleground reminiscent of WWI hellish horror, giant bugs echoing “Starship Troopers,” Tippett’s last big job, attack droids and the statuesque figures of Osiris, Horus and Anubis, the last of which saves the hero, the gas-masked Sentinel, from a gruesome battlefield.
Sure to be a huge draw, an expanded version...
Creator of creatures for “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park,” Tippett may have terrified more people than anybody alive. If a teaser is anything to go by, “Sentinel,” a project, may well pick up on the style of 2021’s experimental and nightmarish stop motion/animation “Mad God.”
“Sentinel” features a battleground reminiscent of WWI hellish horror, giant bugs echoing “Starship Troopers,” Tippett’s last big job, attack droids and the statuesque figures of Osiris, Horus and Anubis, the last of which saves the hero, the gas-masked Sentinel, from a gruesome battlefield.
Sure to be a huge draw, an expanded version...
- 4/19/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Countless shark attack horror movies have flooded the market since Steven Spielberg changed the game with Jaws back in the 1970s, but the reality is that most of them aren’t very good. For every quality shark attack movie like Deep Blue Sea or The Shallows, there are about 100 imitators that have only really served to devalue the entire subgenre in their wake.
But every so often, we get a good one. And Netflix may have one of those on their hands with Under Paris, a shark attack horror movie from French filmmaker Xavier Gens.
Fresh off the just-released action movie Mayhem!, Xavier Gens (Frontiers, Cold Skin) is back this June with Under Paris, and Netflix has unleashed the official trailer this week.
Following in the grand tradition of Jaws, a celebration turns into a PR nightmare when a hungry shark comes to Paris. One shark. A whole lot of tasty humans.
But every so often, we get a good one. And Netflix may have one of those on their hands with Under Paris, a shark attack horror movie from French filmmaker Xavier Gens.
Fresh off the just-released action movie Mayhem!, Xavier Gens (Frontiers, Cold Skin) is back this June with Under Paris, and Netflix has unleashed the official trailer this week.
Following in the grand tradition of Jaws, a celebration turns into a PR nightmare when a hungry shark comes to Paris. One shark. A whole lot of tasty humans.
- 4/9/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
In 2005, actor George Takei, speaking to Frontiers magazine, described his coming out process, noting that revealing his sexuality had to be, at that late date, a political act. Speaking anecdotally, many Trekkies had known for years that Takei was gay, even though he had never had a public coming out moment. After announcing himself, Takei became an outspoken queer rights activist, speaking at public events and spreading queer news online. Sometimes his activism was even fun and cheeky; for a while, one could go to Takei's website and order rainbow t-shirts that read "That's So Takei."
Takei didn't appear in Justin Lin's 2016 film "Star Trek Beyond," as actor John Cho had taken over his 1966 role of Hikaru Sulu with the release of J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" in 2009. Wanting to pay homage to Takei, however, the makers of "Star Trek Beyond" revealed that Sulu was raising a young daughter with his husband,...
Takei didn't appear in Justin Lin's 2016 film "Star Trek Beyond," as actor John Cho had taken over his 1966 role of Hikaru Sulu with the release of J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" in 2009. Wanting to pay homage to Takei, however, the makers of "Star Trek Beyond" revealed that Sulu was raising a young daughter with his husband,...
- 2/11/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Xavier Gens (Frontiers, Cold Skin) is back this week with the brand new action thriller Mayhem!, and IFC Films has provided us with an exclusive clip to whet your appetite today.
Mayhem! will be available in theaters and everywhere you rent movies on January 5, 2024.
The film’s trailer was loaded up with rave reviews that praised the fight choreography in Xavier Gens’ latest, and our exclusive clip spotlights one of those violent fight sequences.
Check it out below, with the previously released trailer underneath the clip.
In the film, “Sam (Nassim Lyes) is a professional boxer about to be released from prison in France, but while on parole, his past catches up with him and he is forced to flee the country. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife Mia and her daughter Dara, working multiple jobs to support...
Mayhem! will be available in theaters and everywhere you rent movies on January 5, 2024.
The film’s trailer was loaded up with rave reviews that praised the fight choreography in Xavier Gens’ latest, and our exclusive clip spotlights one of those violent fight sequences.
Check it out below, with the previously released trailer underneath the clip.
In the film, “Sam (Nassim Lyes) is a professional boxer about to be released from prison in France, but while on parole, his past catches up with him and he is forced to flee the country. Five years later, he has rebuilt a simple life on an exotic island in Thailand with his wife Mia and her daughter Dara, working multiple jobs to support...
- 1/3/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Newport Beach Film Festival, which will run from Oct. 12-19 this year, has announced their opening and closing night films.
Marco Perego’s “The Absence of Eden,” which stars Zoë Saldaña, will open the festival on Oct. 12 at the Edwards Big Newport. Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” starring Paul Giamatti, will close the festival on Oct. 19. The 24th festival will take place in person and feature 91 films from around the world.
Filmmakers will be present for a moderated interview before “The Absence of Eden” screens. The film follows an Ice agent (Garrett Hedlund) grappling with the moral conflict of border security and an undocumented woman (Saldaña) fighting to get away from a merciless cartel; the paths of these two individuals intersect as they join together to save an innocent girl’s life.
Payne’s newest comedy “The Holdovers” follows a grouchy teacher (Giamatti) at a New England prep school...
Marco Perego’s “The Absence of Eden,” which stars Zoë Saldaña, will open the festival on Oct. 12 at the Edwards Big Newport. Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” starring Paul Giamatti, will close the festival on Oct. 19. The 24th festival will take place in person and feature 91 films from around the world.
Filmmakers will be present for a moderated interview before “The Absence of Eden” screens. The film follows an Ice agent (Garrett Hedlund) grappling with the moral conflict of border security and an undocumented woman (Saldaña) fighting to get away from a merciless cartel; the paths of these two individuals intersect as they join together to save an innocent girl’s life.
Payne’s newest comedy “The Holdovers” follows a grouchy teacher (Giamatti) at a New England prep school...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
French filmmaker Xavier Gens (Frontiers, Cold Skin) is back with brand new action movie Mayhem!, and Variety reports today that IFC Films has acquired the film for distribution.
IFC Films will release Mayhem! sometime in 2024. First up, the movie will premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs through August 9, 2023.
The film stars Nassim Lyes as Sam. “When he gets out of prison, he finds it difficult to escape the reach of a local gang lord. He heads to Thailand, but searching for a kidnapped family member brings him square into the bullseye of the underbelly he was trying to escape.”
Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm and Sahajak Boonthanakit also star.
“Xavier Gens has crafted an energetic and propulsive film, showcasing some of the most impressive fight choreography we have ever seen,” said Scott Shooman, head of AMC Networks’ Film Group.
“While winking at films like ‘The Raid’ and ‘Taken,...
IFC Films will release Mayhem! sometime in 2024. First up, the movie will premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs through August 9, 2023.
The film stars Nassim Lyes as Sam. “When he gets out of prison, he finds it difficult to escape the reach of a local gang lord. He heads to Thailand, but searching for a kidnapped family member brings him square into the bullseye of the underbelly he was trying to escape.”
Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm and Sahajak Boonthanakit also star.
“Xavier Gens has crafted an energetic and propulsive film, showcasing some of the most impressive fight choreography we have ever seen,” said Scott Shooman, head of AMC Networks’ Film Group.
“While winking at films like ‘The Raid’ and ‘Taken,...
- 8/2/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Rhona Rees is ready to shock with “Freya,” set in the near future where abortion is completely illegal and contraception is only available to men.
“That’s what I like about sci-fi. If we show an extreme future that’s still preventable, it will allow us to start a conversation,” she says.
“I get really emotional when I talk about it. It’s unbelievable, the way we are sliding backwards in human rights, because women’s rights are human rights. If this was happening to men, there would be World War III.”
Now in development, “Freya” was recently awarded at Frontières, winning PurpleDOG Post’s post-production prize worth Cad$ 10,000. Kristyn Stilling and Athena Russell produce for Freya Films.
Rees has already explored a similar universe in a 2020 short directed by Camille Hollett-French, which she wrote and starred in as Jade, pregnant after a one-night stand. Suddenly, the government-mandated AI assistant,...
“That’s what I like about sci-fi. If we show an extreme future that’s still preventable, it will allow us to start a conversation,” she says.
“I get really emotional when I talk about it. It’s unbelievable, the way we are sliding backwards in human rights, because women’s rights are human rights. If this was happening to men, there would be World War III.”
Now in development, “Freya” was recently awarded at Frontières, winning PurpleDOG Post’s post-production prize worth Cad$ 10,000. Kristyn Stilling and Athena Russell produce for Freya Films.
Rees has already explored a similar universe in a 2020 short directed by Camille Hollett-French, which she wrote and starred in as Jade, pregnant after a one-night stand. Suddenly, the government-mandated AI assistant,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
In one of the big deals announced out of Canada’s Fantasia Film Festival, XYZ Films has boarded North American sales rights to “New Life,” John Rosman’s feature directorial debut which is hailed by Fantasia itself as “one of the major discoveries of Fantasia 2023.”
“New Life” stars Sonya Walger and Hayley Erin and Tony Amendola.
XYZ Films has also dropped the film’s first teaser, shared in exclusivity with Variety, ahead of “New Life’s” world premiere on Aug. 8 at Fantasia, North America’s biggest genre festival.
“New Life” is also written by Rosman and produced by T. Justin Ross, producer on Shudder’s record-breaking hit “The Mortuary Collection” and the Judy Greer-led “Aporia,” also premiering at Fantasia, and Mike Marchlewski.
The film is executive produced by David Lawson Jr., producer of the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Sundance darling “Something in the Dirt” and the critically acclaimed sci-fi horror “The Endless,...
“New Life” stars Sonya Walger and Hayley Erin and Tony Amendola.
XYZ Films has also dropped the film’s first teaser, shared in exclusivity with Variety, ahead of “New Life’s” world premiere on Aug. 8 at Fantasia, North America’s biggest genre festival.
“New Life” is also written by Rosman and produced by T. Justin Ross, producer on Shudder’s record-breaking hit “The Mortuary Collection” and the Judy Greer-led “Aporia,” also premiering at Fantasia, and Mike Marchlewski.
The film is executive produced by David Lawson Jr., producer of the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Sundance darling “Something in the Dirt” and the critically acclaimed sci-fi horror “The Endless,...
- 7/25/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Brooklyn-based Roller Coaster Road Productions, best known for its documentaries (“History of Food”), has joined Paris’ Mad Films to develop one of the most singular titles hitting the market at this week’s Frontières Market at Fantasia: “High Pressure,” a literally immersive live action underwater survival thriller with a VR viewership option for key scenes.
The producers have initiated talks for James Marsden (“X-Men”) to star in the film.
Paris-based Alba Films will handle the film’s theatrical distribution in France. Two-and-a-half minutes of an animated revisualisation of the movie will be presented at Frontières.
Set to be directed by Mad Films CEO Jean Mach and Nicolas Albany, co-helmers of the virtual world-themed “8th Wonderland,” a Fantasia 2008 best screenplay audience award winner, “High Pressure” sports the log line: “Two brothers. 80 meters down. 24 hours of oxygen.”
Written by Mach, it turns on the Sallinger twin brothers, James and Dominique, media...
The producers have initiated talks for James Marsden (“X-Men”) to star in the film.
Paris-based Alba Films will handle the film’s theatrical distribution in France. Two-and-a-half minutes of an animated revisualisation of the movie will be presented at Frontières.
Set to be directed by Mad Films CEO Jean Mach and Nicolas Albany, co-helmers of the virtual world-themed “8th Wonderland,” a Fantasia 2008 best screenplay audience award winner, “High Pressure” sports the log line: “Two brothers. 80 meters down. 24 hours of oxygen.”
Written by Mach, it turns on the Sallinger twin brothers, James and Dominique, media...
- 7/24/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 20th through August 9th at the Concordia Hall Cinema in Montreal, with additional screens at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. In May, they announced the first wave of titles that will be showing at this year’s festival. Last month, the second wave was announced. Now, the titles that make up the third and final wave have been unveiled – and along with that comes the announcement that Nicolas Cage will be receiving the Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award at this year’s show!
The Fantasia International Film Festival has chosen to honor Nicolas Cage this year because he “has brought a wide variety of unforgettable people to life in works that are as memorable as the characters he portrayed, with textured performances that have been among the most exciting and unique from...
The Fantasia International Film Festival has chosen to honor Nicolas Cage this year because he “has brought a wide variety of unforgettable people to life in works that are as memorable as the characters he portrayed, with textured performances that have been among the most exciting and unique from...
- 7/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Montreal fest runs July 20-August 9.
The 27th edition of Fantasia International Film Festival (July 20-August 9) in Montreal will open with the North American premiere of Pascal Plante’s cyber thriller Red Rooms (Chambres Rouges).
The film will get its world premiere in Karlovy Vary and follows a tech-savvy overachiever who becomes obsessed with the high-profile trial of a serial killer.
As reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path in search of the final piece in the puzzle, the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl. Sphere Films International recently launched sales in Cannes.
Second wave...
The 27th edition of Fantasia International Film Festival (July 20-August 9) in Montreal will open with the North American premiere of Pascal Plante’s cyber thriller Red Rooms (Chambres Rouges).
The film will get its world premiere in Karlovy Vary and follows a tech-savvy overachiever who becomes obsessed with the high-profile trial of a serial killer.
As reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path in search of the final piece in the puzzle, the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl. Sphere Films International recently launched sales in Cannes.
Second wave...
- 6/8/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
French filmmaker Xavier Gens is back with a shark attack movie for Netflix, and Variety shares the first look today along with some early information.
The film doesn’t yet have a title, but we do know it’s set in Paris. It’s said to be an “ambitious elevated genre film,” and Variety notes that it’ll launch on Netflix in 2024.
Variety details, “Set in the Summer of 2024, the film unfolds in Paris which is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, learns from Mika, a young environmental activist, that a large shark is swimming deep in the river.
“To avoid a bloodbath at the heart of the city, they have no choice but to join forces with Adil, the Seine river police commander.”
Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) and Nassim Lyes (Overdose) star.
The post First Look at Netflix’s...
The film doesn’t yet have a title, but we do know it’s set in Paris. It’s said to be an “ambitious elevated genre film,” and Variety notes that it’ll launch on Netflix in 2024.
Variety details, “Set in the Summer of 2024, the film unfolds in Paris which is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, learns from Mika, a young environmental activist, that a large shark is swimming deep in the river.
“To avoid a bloodbath at the heart of the city, they have no choice but to join forces with Adil, the Seine river police commander.”
Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) and Nassim Lyes (Overdose) star.
The post First Look at Netflix’s...
- 4/28/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Mubi has acquired British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature How to Have Sex, which is set to debut in Un Certain Regard at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival.
The streamer has taken all rights for North America, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Latin America, Turkey, and Benelux. Announcing the deal, Mubi said theatrical releases are planned for “key territories,” including the US and UK, while a theatrical release in the Benelux will be hosted in partnership with Imagine Film Distribution. Following theatrical releases, the film will debut on Mubi in all territories acquired.
Written and directed by Walker, the pic stars Mia McKenna-Bruce alongside Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, and newcomers Enva Lewis and Laura Ambler. The film was shot by Nicolas Canniccioni.
Billed as an “exuberant, nuanced and painfully honest” tale...
The streamer has taken all rights for North America, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Latin America, Turkey, and Benelux. Announcing the deal, Mubi said theatrical releases are planned for “key territories,” including the US and UK, while a theatrical release in the Benelux will be hosted in partnership with Imagine Film Distribution. Following theatrical releases, the film will debut on Mubi in all territories acquired.
Written and directed by Walker, the pic stars Mia McKenna-Bruce alongside Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, and newcomers Enva Lewis and Laura Ambler. The film was shot by Nicolas Canniccioni.
Billed as an “exuberant, nuanced and painfully honest” tale...
- 4/27/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Swiss auteur Simon Jaquemet’s “Electric Child” joins Ukrainian sci-fi comedy “U Are the Universe,” and “We Are Zombies,” from heavily rated Canadian trio Rkss, as three potential highlights at this year’s Cannes Marché du Film’s Frontières Platform, organized with the Fantasia Film Festival.
Focusing on genre, the Frontières showcase is emerging as one of the Marché du Film’s biggest market plays, supercharged by this year’s milestone Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” smart genre’s popularity among an emerging generation of filmmakers and its rising tide as one of the most resilient of independent movie market propositions.
For Rkss, it’s a return, having had great success with their previous “Turbo Kid,” which went on to Sundance, and won a bunch including at SXSW and Fright Fest.
“U Are the Universe,” deserves a special mention, given the sheer challenge of completing a project...
Focusing on genre, the Frontières showcase is emerging as one of the Marché du Film’s biggest market plays, supercharged by this year’s milestone Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” smart genre’s popularity among an emerging generation of filmmakers and its rising tide as one of the most resilient of independent movie market propositions.
For Rkss, it’s a return, having had great success with their previous “Turbo Kid,” which went on to Sundance, and won a bunch including at SXSW and Fright Fest.
“U Are the Universe,” deserves a special mention, given the sheer challenge of completing a project...
- 4/5/2023
- by Callum McLennan and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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